2 months ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+
Base Salary
$192k - $192k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead large-scale Sensor Platform initiatives involving high-throughput ingestion, pipeline scalability, continuous capture, and queue management reliability.
- Own root cause analysis and postmortems for complex production and canary issues involving capture pipelines, brokers, shutdown behavior, and message-broker integration.
- Establish standards for documentation, test harnesses, observability, and performance benchmarks across the sensor codebase.
- Translate reliability, latency, capture-interface, and data-fidelity goals into technical plans and delivery milestones.
- Build tooling to improve observability, reliability, developer experience, and production diagnosis.
- Mentor engineers and contribute to design and code reviews across experience levels.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience designing, developing, and debugging distributed systems software.
- Deep Rust expertise in asynchronous and concurrent programming, ownership discipline, and performance-sensitive systems design.
- Experience architecting or leading significant systems initiatives from design documentation through production deployment.
- Strong knowledge of pipeline topologies, graceful shutdown sequencing, backpressure management, and active queue management.
- Experience with high-performance packet capture and Linux systems programming for low-latency workloads.
- Experience leading root cause analysis for complex, multi-component production failures and implementing durable fixes.
- Experience with message queuing or broker systems under production load.
- Awareness of how sensor reliability and data fidelity affect detection quality in ICS/OT network monitoring.
- Experience applying cybersecurity best practices, including secure coding, data protection, and awareness of common threats and vulnerabilities.
- Preferred experience with eBPF, XDP, AF_XDP socket programming, or high-speed Linux data-plane capture.
- Preferred experience with ICS/OT environments, industrial network protocol analysis, or OT security tooling.
- Preferred familiarity with Kubernetes, containerized sensor deployments, edge infrastructure, OpenTelemetry, structured logging, or distributed tracing.
Benefits
- $192,000 salary and a competitive equity package.
- Comprehensive benefits plan.
- Remote-first work arrangement.
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About Dragos
Dragos builds OT/ICS cybersecurity software and services for operators of industrial and critical infrastructure. The Dragos Platform provides asset visibility, vulnerability management, and threat detection across OT, IT, IoT, and IIoT, complemented by OT threat intelligence and incident response services. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Hanover, Maryland, it serves sectors including electric power, oil and gas, manufacturing, water, transportation, mining, and government.